Banff National Park

Canadian Rockies For those who enjoy the great outdoors at its most picturesque, a trip to the Canadian Rockies is an ideal vacation. For extreme adventure seekers who are looking for the thrill of a lifetime, (or those seeking slightly more tranquil experiences), deciding when to make the trip is the key to ensure the best weather conditions for whatever the interest. Because of the extreme elevation, weather in the Canadian Rockies is often unpredictable and may even change from one...Read Full Story

A small Canadian town located within the Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada is the owner of this beautiful scenery. Surrounded by mountains of Rookies namingly a few like Mount Rundle, Mount Norquay, and Cascade Mountain, Banff is a famous tourist hot spot because of obviously number one the enchantingly wonderful scenery, number two mountains eligible for hiking and mountaineering and number three hot springs. In other words to say it is an ideal destination for relaxation. Banff is...Read Full Story

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CANADABANFF NATIONAL PARKSent by Coleen, a WiP partner from Canada.This is from Wikipedia : Banff National Park (pronunciation: /ˈbæmf/) is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains. The park, located 110–180 kilometres (70–110 mi) west of Calgary in the province of Alberta, encompasses 6,641 square kilometres (2,564 sq mi) of mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes. The Icefields Parkway...Read Full Story

To say that arriving in the Rocky Mountain milieu of Banff and Lake Louise induces a feeling of euphoria understates the natural high you feel just being surrounded by snowy peaks that touch the sky, turquoise lakes that glisten amid backdrops of glaciers and wooded mountains, in a place where fresh scents of pine perfume the air. Although this location – often portrayed as an iconic image of Canada – is just a 90-minute drive from urbane Calgary, the aura it creates of a rural and rustic...Read Full Story

When people see this photo for the first time I often get get asked why I changed the colour of the water so drastically. If you’re one of the lucky people to have visited Peyto Lake then you know that I did no such thing. This is the true colour, I swear! This was a moment that took my breath away and you can see why. The lake itself is enough to make your jaw drop but I was lucky enough to be there at a time when the cloud cover was just perfect for a photo. I wish I could have gone down to...Read Full Story

First of all, the great thing about the Banff National Park is that it developed gradually—from being a 26-kilometer hot springs reserve, it has turned into a natural attraction encompassing 6,641 square kilometers of mountain scenery on the Canadian Rockies. This place is important to Canada because it’s the country’s first National Park, and the scenery that envelopes it is just breathtaking and magnificent. Hiking, mountain climbing, and sightseeing are not just the things that you can...Read Full Story

Floe Lake Kootenay National Park Todays trip update comes from Radium Hot Springs inside Kootenay National Park British Columbia. During the past week or so I’ve been gradually heading south through the Icefields Parkway in Jasper and then Banff National Parks. Along this route I’ve stopped at several spots for classic Canadian Rockies photographs, most notably the Columbia Icefields, Mount Edith Cavell, Peyto Lake, and one of the all time classics, Moraine Lake. During this time the weather...Read Full Story

As school children in Canada we all learn how important the railroad was to our nation’s founding and what a monumental task it was to build a rail network across such a vast country with what would seem to be rather insurmountable obstacles. These obstacles were both geographic an economic but let’s talk about the geographic ones since this photo was taken at a point where so many of those obstacles began for the railway. It was relatively easy for the railway to be constructed on Canada’s...Read Full Story

Lake Louise is one of the most beautiful places on the planet and I’m sure that anyone who has been there would agree. Travel around Banff National Park and you’ll come across one sight after another like this and it gets to a point where it is hard to imagine that so much natural beauty can exist in one place. I assure you that it does and I just hope that my photos can convey a small part of the sensation that you get when actually being there. The colour of the water, the smell of the...Read Full Story